days. listen to what he said. with respect to the question whether we ve had engagement with the russian federation on the whelan case. we will have an engagement with him this week. i won t say more about it because we re trying to keep that in sensitive channels, but that s the timetable and we have had regular engagement of course along the way. if u.s. officials are going to put a firm offer on the table in that meeting later this week with russian officials or if they re going to start floating ideas to get whelan out. we did hear from the special enjoy for affairs who said the united states still has cards to play. we re just watching to see which cards they put forward and which cards the russian agree to. thanks. more now from the special presidential envoy for hostage affairs. roger, appreciate you being with us. i want to ask you about this amazing moment on the tarmac you
incredibly difficult time. of course, it s very, very difficult. my son and my daughter-in-law just can t keep it together to be able to enjoy the holidays so it s going to be definitely different this year. and very sad. it s very sad. is it, is it important for you to understand everything that happened that day? to finally get one day answers to exactly who made the mistakes, why things weren t done and figure out a way to make sure it didn t happen again? it is. and we all understand who pulled the trigger. we understand that it s the after effect that we are concerned about because there were several individuals that could have been saved had they
breached immediately. and we all know that now because we ve received the autopsy report. so we know now, but we want to know who had the ability to do that. their lack of communication with radio communication, but there s also a way to walk around and find out who actually had control that day. you know, every leader had that opportunity. whether it be or pargas or whoever. whoever had, leaders there had every opportunity to walk around to find out who was in control the 77 minutes is 77 minutes too long. yeah. it stuns me that so many months later that you and the other family members are still having to be advocates for your granddaughter. for people s daughters, for
their sons, for their family members. that law enforcement, that there s not already all the information given to the families. i mean, it s incomprehensible to me that you are all just out there desperate for answers and not getting it really from any level of authority and i appreciate you talking to us to want. i m so sorry we have to talk and continue to cover this in in way because it s, it just seems so terribly, terribly unfair. it s very sad we re stuck on may 24th. we re getting more information from media than we are from our leaders here. but we really appreciate everything that y all are doing for us. i appreciate what shimon is doing and his team and all the folks covering this. i m so sorry for your loss. thank you. still to come, the white house calling on what marjorie
evidence that we have and whatever they don t have now, they soon will have. so there s that. but i also think having gone through all of this information, just speaking for myself, it would be a good idea to wrap it up in some way that makes sense in terms of the behavior, the evidence that we had and compare it and contrast with what the obligations are legally. so i m very open to that and we will have this done you know, in a week, so i m not going to be making any announcements. yeah. i appreciate your time. thank you. you bet. now to a remarkable video from over the weekend in a battle a city council member with an activist who confronted him. nick watt has the story. kevin de leon is wearing the santa hat. a wounded lion of l.a. politics.